eco - shout

Welcome to eco-shout, a campaign tool for environment and social justice campaigns and
a catalyst to action for everyone who wants
to get more involved in the environment and social change.

If you know of a group that's not included in our active groups directory, please tell us about it.

We would not exist with out our generous members and supporters.

Quick Links:

> add your group to the active groups directory
> add an event to the calendar
> download a poster and help spread the word

Don't know where to start? Here's seven big campaigns based in Victoria that need you now:

> protecting the old growth forests of East Gippsland
> protecting the Central Highlands
> restoring flows to the Murray River
> preventing expansion of Olympic Dam uranium ...mine
> shutting down the coal industry in Victoria
> ending whaling in the Southern Ocean
> protecting Australia from coal seam gas mining

Here's six areas in Australia of national/international significance under threat from logging, mining, toxic waste or large scale industrial development:

> the Kimberley wilderness, WA
> world heritage wilderness of Tasmania
> Daintree tropical rainforest, Qld
> Lake Cowal migratory wetland, NSW
> Kakadu and other sacred aboriginal land, NT
> the oceans of Australia

To find a group focusing on a particular issue, choose a your issue in the active groups directory.

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Top 5 Reasons to make sure your super isn't invested in fossil fuels:
1.If it’s wrong to wreck the planet, than it’s also wrong to profit from that wreckage
2.We shouldn’t be investing in companies that are spending millions of dollars lobbying against clean energy solutions and millions more funding climate denial and anti-science think tanks
3.The fossil fuel industry’s business plan is to burn five times more carbon dioxide than scientists say we can safely emit and still keep global warming below the 2°C tipping point
4.Big Oil likes to say that it’s greening its operations, but that’s just PR: no major oil company is investing a significant part of its profits into renewable energy research
5.Divestment can have a major political impact by taking away the social license of the fossil fuel industry, turning Big Oil into Big Tobacco, an industry that no politician wants to be seen with
Go Fossil Free

The moratorium on fracking in Victoria is likely to be lifted this month. The minute that happens, fracking for unconventional gas will commence in some of Victoria’s prime agricultural land! The rapid expansion of Victoria’s coal and unconventional gas industries threatens the health of rural communities, will destroy farmland, devastate natural ecosystems and contaminate water supplies. Call on Premier Denis Napthine to institute a moratorium on all new coal and unconventional gas mining until it can be scientifically proven safe for us and our future generations.
No Fracking Way

Can you believe something this beautiful could soon be extinct? Because the Victorian government won't stop logging its habitat? The home of the Leadbeaters possum was reduced to a small patch in the Central Highlands by the 2009 bush fires. But this isn't stopping logging from trashing the rest. Say NO WAY to extinction, its forever!